Does anyone have a suggestion for a good book about the bond between sisters?

[Oread]

And one that is not corny and floofy? Thank you!

[aliengirl]

"Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott is a good book about bond between sisters. I don't think you would find it corny. That is the only one which I can recall right now. Will tell you about more later.

[Wilde woman]

I recently read an interesting Iris Murdoch novel called The Green Knight that is a modern retelling of the medieval romance Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. In the original, the focus is on the integrity of Sir Gawain and his enduring chastity when he's seduced by a lady. So it's very masculine.

What I enjoyed about this retelling was that Murdoch added three sisters who are in love with the various Gawain and Green Knight figures, instead of just a sinister seducing woman. The book is very much about the sisters' relationships to each other and their conflicting feelings towards each other and the men in their lives. The three sisters have such interesting names - Sefton, Aleph, and Moy - and have distinct personalities. Some have interpreted them as a symbol of the three Greek fates (specifically because the youngest sister's name Moy sounds like "moirae"...Greek for the Fates). Others have interpreted them as the three faces of the pagan triple goddess who was one archetype for SGGK's villainess, Morgan La Fey.

Or, if you wanted something more canonical, you could always go with the Jane Austen stories with sisters...Pride and Prejudice or Sense and Sensibility.

[Patrick_Bateman]

"Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott is a good book about bond between sisters. I don't think you would find it corny. That is the only one which I can recall right now. Will tell you about more later.

I had a bet with myself that this would be the first suggestion

[Dark Muse]

I am currently reading Shanghai Girls by Lisa See right now, I am almost done with it, and it is a really good book and acutally I was a bit concerned at first that it might be a bit too floofy for my own personal taste but it is not at all. In fact I am surprised by how much I have come to like it.

[Veho]

I had a bet with myself that this would be the first suggestion

:lol: I think it was inevitable.

To the OP, maybe Middlemarch by Eliot or I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith. The sisterly bond theme is not a major part in either but it is present, even if only in a very small quantity (from what I can remember) in Middlemarch.

[mona amon]

The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood has an interesting relationship between two sisters.

[Dark Muse]

The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood has an interesting relationship between two sisters.

Oh yes that is a good one.

Also Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austin has some good stuff about sisterly relationships.

[hazelk]

Why not try, Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald.

It follows the lives of four sisters, I liked it very much. Quite darkish at times.

[kelby_lake]

"Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott is a good book about bond between sisters. I don't think you would find it corny. That is the only one which I can recall right now. Will tell you about more later.

This, and Pride and Prejudice. And Sense and Sensibility.

[Pryderi Agni]

Have you read the book on which they made the movie The Other Boleyn Girl? It's by Philippa Gregory, I think. Same title.

[ladderandbucket]

Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson

[Scheherazade]

If you are interested in some books that are more recently written:

Now in November by Josephine Johnson

His Family by Ernest Poole

A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley

Atonement by Ian McEwan

The first three are Pulitzer winners.

[kelby_lake]

If you are interested in some books that are more recently written:

Now in November by Josephine Johnson

His Family by Ernest Poole

A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley

Atonement by Ian McEwan

The first three are Pulitzer winners.

I second those last two. King Lear, also.